He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

Stop praying. Start thinking.

Even famous people - are most concerned of all with what people who are close to them think. And the sociopath is generally not concerned with that at all.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.